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Santa Sangre
When: Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Where: Cloud Mountain Kombucha, 208 W. Griggs St, Urbana, IL, 61801 — Urbana, IL
Price: Free
A hallucinatory descent into madness and memory, this masterwork stands as one of Alejandro Jodorowsky's most ferocious and personal visions—equal parts surrealist nightmare, operatic melodrama, and cult initiation rite. Emerging after years of myth-making around the director's unrealized projects, the film marked a triumphant return that reaffirmed Jodorowsky's status as cinema's high priest of the subconscious. Drenched in ritual, symbolism, and Grand Guignol intensity, it plays less like a conventional narrative than a waking dream engineered to unnerve and mesmerize a roomful of viewers at once. Decades later, its power remains undiminished: shocking, hypnotic, and unmistakably the work of a singular auteur whose influence continues to ripple through cult and midnight cinema.
Content Warnings: Graphic violence and gore, murder, disturbing imagery, sexual content, nudity, religious imagery, psychological trauma, body horror, and themes of abuse and incest.
Mexico/Italy 1989 • 123 min (1.85:1) • Not Rated | Directed by: Alejandro JodorowskyStarring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy StockwellAdvance tickets: $10 ($8 for current members) | Regular admission: $12 (at the door)Presented by: Film-Fanatic.Club
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